Here an LED luminaire from KLV LED Verlichting. The measurements from OliNo show that the lamp emits a neutral white light with a color temperature of 4965 K. The lamp consumes 143.5 W and has a luminous flux of 22945 lm. This results in an efficacy of 160 lm/W. The lamps energy category label is A++.

This article shows the measurement results. Many parameters are also found in the Eulumdat file.

113 deg is the beam angle for the C0-C180-plane (perpendicular to the length direction of the lamp) and 112 deg is the beam angle for the C90-C270 plane, which is along the length direction of the lamp.

Warm up effect: During the warmup time the illuminance doesn’t vary significantly (< 5 %).

During the warmup time the power doesn’t vary significantly (< 5 %).
The variation in efficacy (calculated as indication by simply dividing the illuminance by the power) during the warming up is 0 %. A very high negative value indicates a significant decrease for instance due to heating up of the lamp (decrease of lifetime).

Voltage dependency: There is no (significant) dependency of the illuminance when the power voltage varies between 200 – 250 V AC.
There is no (significant) dependency of the consumed power when the power voltage varies between 200 – 250 V AC.

This is the variation in efficacy (calculated as indication by simply dividing the illuminance by the power) during the warming up. A very high negative value indicates a significant decrease for instance due to heating up of the lamp (decrease of lifetime).

Overview table

EU 2013 Energy label classification

Important for the energy classification are the corrected rated power and the useful luminous flux.
The measured rated power is 143.5 W and might need to be corrected. The correction is dependent from the lamp type and whether or not the lamp control gear is included or not. The choice for this lamp is the following classification: Lamps with own control gear (external or internal). As a result the corrected rated power becomes: 143.5 W.
The luminous flux measured is 22945 lm. The classification of this lamp needed to determine the useful flux is: Directional lamps with a beam angle >= 90° other than filament lamps and carrying a textual or graphical warning on their packaging that they are not suitable for accent lighting. Then the useful flux becomes 18417 lm. Now a reference power can be calculated.

The energy efficiency coefficient is P_corr / P_ref = 0.11.

EU energy label for this lamp

Zip file with 6 EU energy labels of this lamp

The lamp’s performance in the lumen-Watt field, with the energy efficacy fields indicated.

Eulumdat light diagram

The light diagram indicates the beam in the C0-C180 plane (perpendicular to the length direction of the lamp) and in the plane perpendicular to that, the C90-C270 plane (along the length direction of the lamp).

When using the Ev or Iv values per inclination angle, the beam angle can be computed, being 113 deg for the C0-C180 plane and 112 deg for the C90-C270 plane.

Image of the light distribution pattern in 3D.

Intensity data of every measured turn angle at each inclination angle.

This plot shows per inclination angle the intensity measurement results for each turn angle at that inclination angle. There normally are differences in illuminance values for different turn angles. However for further calculations the averaged values will be used.

Luminous flux

With the averaged illuminance data at 1 m distance, taken from the graph showing the averaged radiation pattern, it is possible to compute the luminous flux.

The result of this computation for this light spot is a luminous flux of 22945 lm.

Luminous efficacy

The luminous flux being 22945 lm, and the consumed power of the lamp being 143.5 Watt, results in a luminous efficacy of 160 lm/Watt.

Electrical properties

The power factor is 0.99. An electrical load with this power factor means that for every 1 kWh net energy consumed, there has been 0.16 kVAhr for reactive energy.

Of this lamp the voltage across and the resulting current through it are measured and graphed.

Voltage across and current through the lightbulb

This current waveform has been checked on requirements posed by the norm IEC 61000-3-2:2018. This norm contains requirements for lamps with a power 5 W, 5 – 25 W and > 25 W. This lamp consumes 143.5 W.

When power is more than 25 W there are requirements on the harmonics in the current.

The harmonics in the current compared to the requirements in IEC61000-3-2:2018

The requirements in norm IEC61000-3-2:2018 are met.

Inrush current

The inrush current has been measured for different voltage start angles; from 0 – 170 degrees with a 10 degrees step. The current- and voltage values have been acquires at a sample speed of 39.9 kS/s. Then this data has been fed into a second order 2kHz low pass Butterworth filter. This removes the current spikes that do not represent relevant values.
The lamp was two minutes off before every inrush current measurement was made.

Test voltage

230.0 V

Frequency of the voltage

50.0 Hz

Maximum inrush current

3.648 A

This current has been found at a voltage start angle of 90 degrees.

Pulse width of max inrush current

3.5E-4 s

This is the time that the pulse is higher than 10 % of the max inrush current.

Minimal inrush current

0.194 A

This current has been found at a voltage start angle of 0 degrees.

I^2 x t after 10 ms at 0 deg voltage start angle

7.900E-5 A

This is the I^2 t value when a zero crossing detector is used to start the voltage from 0 degrees.

Inrush current found at worst-case voltage start angle

First cycle of the maximum inrush current

The energy I2t during the first 10 ms of the first current cycle

Temperature measurements lamp

Temperature image(s).

status lamp

2 hours on

ambient temperature

25 deg C

reflected background temperature

25 deg C

camera

Flir T335

emissivity

0.95

measurement distance

1 m

IFOVgeometric

0.136 mm per 0.1 m distance

NETD (thermal sensitivity)

50 mK

Color temperature and Spectral power distribution

The spectral power distribution of this light bulb, energies on y-axis valid at 1 m distance.

The measured color temperature is 4965 K which is neutral white.

This color temperature is measured straight underneath the light bulb. Below a graph showing the color temperature for different inclination angles.

Color temperature as a function of inclination angle.

The color temperature is given for inclination angles up to 80 deg. Beyond that value the illuminance is lower than 10%% of Ev straight underneath the lamp, that it has not been used for color determination of the light.

For the C0-C180 plane: the beam angle of 113 deg is equivalent to 56.6 deg inclination angle,which is the area where most of the light falls within. The maximum variation of color temperature in this inclination area is about 6 %.

For the C90-C270 plane: the beam angle of 112 deg is equivalent to 55.9 deg inclination angle,which is the area where most of the light falls within. The maximum variation of color temperature in this inclination area is about 6 %.

Color point dependent on inclination angle related to 2, 4 and 6 step MacAdam ellipse, for all angles within the beam angle (solid line) and for all angles where Ev dropped to 10 % value (dotted line)

PAR value and PAR spectrum

To make a statement how well the light of this light bulb is for growing plants, the PAR-area needs to be determined.

The photon spectrum, then the sensitivity curve and as result the final PAR spectrum of the light of this light bulb

parameter

value

unit

PAR photon current

207.5

uMol/s

PAR photon efficacy

1.4

uMol/s/W

photon current (350-750 nm)

326.5

uMol/s

The PAR efficiency is 65 % (valid for the PAR wave length range of 400 – 700 nm). This is the maximum percentage of the total of photons in the light that is effectively used by the average plant (since the plant might not take 100 % of the photons at the frequency where its relative sensitivity is 100 %).

Chromaticity diagram

The point of the light in this diagram is inside the area indicated with class A. The areas A and B indicate areas for signal lamps.

The color coordinates are x=0.3467 and y=0.3589.

Color Rendering Index (CRI) or also Ra

Herewith the image showing the CRI as well as how well different colors are represented (rendered). The higher the number, the better the resemblance with the color when a black body radiator would have been used (the sun, or an incandescent lamp)

Each color has an index Rx, and the first 8 indexes (R1 .. R8) are averaged to compute the Ra which is equivalent to the CRI.

CRI of the light of this lightbulb.

This value of 82 indicates how well the light of this lamp can render well a set of reference colors, this in comparison with the light of a reference source (for color temperatures 5000K a black radiator is used as reference and for color temperatures 5000K the sun or the light outside during the day).

The value of 82 is bigger than the value of 80 that is considered as a minimum for working areas in general.

Note: the chromaticity difference is 0.0030 and indicates the distance to the Planckian Locus. There is a value mentioned of max 5.4E-3 in section 5.3 of CIE 13.3-1995 however no further explanation of it.
An other reference with signal lights as a reference is given in the chromaticity diagram.

Color quality scale TM-30-15

TM-30-15 is an improved indicator (over CRI) of how well colors are rendered.
TM30-15 Rf = 79, Rg = 91.

TM-30-15-values for 99 samples for the light of this light bulb. The closer the value for a testcolor comes to 100, the more its rendition resembles that of a reference lightsource.

Graphical view of averaged color points for this light bulb compared to a reference source with the same color temperature.

Voltage dependency

The dependency of a number of lamp parameters on the lamp voltage is determined. For this, the lamp voltage has been varied and its effect on the following light bulb parameters measured: illuminance E_v [lx], the lamppower P [W] and the luminous efficacy [lm/W] (this latter is estimated here by dividing the found E_v value by P).

Lamp voltage dependencies of certain light bulb parameters

There is no (significant) dependency of the illuminance when the power voltage varies between 200 – 250 V AC.
There is no (significant) dependency of the consumed power when the power voltage varies between 200 – 250 V AC.

When the voltage varies abruptly with + or – 5 V AC then this results in a variation of the illuminance of maximally 0.0 %. This difference in illuminance is not visible (when it occurs abruptly).

Warm up effects

After switch on of a cold lamp, the effect of heating up of the lamp is measured on illuminance E_v [lx], the lamppower P [W] and the luminous efficacy [lm/W].

Effect of warming up on different light bulb parameters. In the first graph the 100 % level is put at begin, and in the last graph the 100 % level is put at the end.

During the warmup time the illuminance doesn’t vary significantly ( 5 %).

During the warmup time the power doesn’t vary significantly ( 5 %).
The variation in efficacy (calculated as indication by simply dividing the illuminance by the power) during the warming up is 0 %. A very high negative value indicates a significant decrease for instance due to heating up of the lamp (decrease of lifetime).

Melanopic effect

The melanopic effect shows the level of impact the light of this lamp can have on the day-night rhythm of human beings (as well as the suppression of melatonin production).
The important parameters (according to norm DIN SPEC 5031-100:2015-08):

melanopic effect factor

0.704

kmel trans (25 years)

1.049

kmel trans (32 years)

1.000

kmel trans (50 years)

0.841

kmel trans(75 years)

0.596

kmel trans(90 years)

0.464

kpupil(25 years)

1.088

kpupil(32 years)

1.000

kpupil(50 years)

0.792

kpupil(75 years)

0.543

kpupil(90 years)

0.416

Circadian Stimulus (CS)

The circadian stimulus indicates the degree of influence that the light of this lamp has on the human circadian rhythm. In addition to the melanopic effect of Ganglion cells, the contributions of S-cones and rods are also included. A CS value of 0.1 has hardly any effect and a value > 0.3 has an effect (0.7 is the maximum, saturated, value). The CS value depends on the spectrum of the light and also on the amount of it (received on the eye).

Ev [lux]

CL_A

CS

20.0

19.2

0.03

30.0

28.9

0.04

50.0

48.2

0.07

75.0

72.4

0.10

100.0

96.8

0.13

150.0

145.8

0.19

300.0

295.1

0.31

500.0

499.8

0.41

750.0

764.1

0.49

1000.0

1037.5

0.54

1500.0

1609.8

0.59

2000.0

2213.8

0.62

Blue Light Hazard

The amount of blue light and the harm it can cause on the retina has been determined. Herewith the results.

The level of blue light of this lamp related to the exposure limit and the different classification areas.

L_lum0 [mm]

90

Dimension of brightest part of lamp in C0-C180 direction.

L_lum90 [mm]

1440

Dimension of brightest part of lamp in C90-C270 direction.

SSD_500lx [mm]

4035

Calculated distance where Ev = 500 lux. This computation is valid when it is in the far field of the lamp. Note: if this value 200 mm then the distance of 200 mm is taken as proposed in the norm IEC 62471:2006.

Start of far field [mm]

7214

Minimum distance at which the lamp can be seen as apoint source. In this area the Ev is linearly dependent from (1/distance)2.

300-350 nm values stuffed with 0s

yes

In the event OliNo has measured with a SpB1211 spectrometer without UV option then the irradiance data of 300-349 nm is missing. For lamps where there is already no energy content near 350 nm, the values 300-349 can also be set at zero then.

alphaC0-C180 [rad]

0.100

(Apparent) source angle in C0-C180 direction.

alphaC90-C270 [rad]

0.100

(Apparent) source angle in C90-C270 direction.

alphaAVG [rad]

0.100

Average (apparent) source angle. If average >= 0.011 rad then the exposure limit is computed with radiance Lb. Otherwise with irradiance Eb.

Exposure value [W/m^2/sr]

1.20E+1

Blue Light Hazard value for this lamp, measured straight underneath the lamp. Computation is referenced to Lb. Because the distance at 500 lux is in the near field, then this exposure value is too pessimistic and should be lower.

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